January 1, 2023

II Corinthians 1:1-14

Order of Worship

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

Psalm 128C Blue Psalter, pg 845

“Whoever Fears the Lord”

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:1-11

Comfort for God’s People

¹ Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
²Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.

³ A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
⁴Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
⁵And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

⁶ A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
⁸The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.

⁹Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Behold your God!”
¹⁰Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
¹¹He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

His Mercy Is More
1. What love could remember no wrongs we have done;
Omniscient, all knowing, He counts not their sum.

Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

Refrain: Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.

Stronger than darkness, new every morn;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
1. What patience would wait as we constantly roam;
What Father, so tender, is calling us home.

He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor.

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

Refrain: Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.

Stronger than darkness, new every morn;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
1. What riches of kindness He lavished on us;
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost.

We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

Refrain: Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.

Stronger than darkness, new every morn;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

(Repeat Refrain)

Words and Music by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa ©2016 Getty Music Songs, Messenger Hymns and Love Your Enemies Publishing

We Respond to God’s Presence

Come Praise and Glorify

(Based on Ephesians 1)

Come praise and glorify our God, the Father of our Lord

In Christ He has in heav’nly realms His blessings on us poured

For pure and blameless in His sight He destined us to be

And now we’ve been adopted through His Son eternally

Refrain:       To the praise of Your glory,

To the praise of Your mercy and grace

To the praise of Your glory

You are the God who saves

Come praise and glorify our God Who gives His grace in Christ

In Him our sins are washed away redeemed through sacrifice

In Him God has made known to us the myst’ry of His will

That Christ should be the head of all His purpose to fulfill     (Refrain)

Come praise and glorify our God for we’ve believed the Word

And through our faith we have a seal the Spirit of the Lord

The Spirit guarantees our hope until redemption’s done

Until we join in endless praise to God, the Three in One        (Refrain)

By Bob Kauflin and Tim Chester. © 2011 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)

Behold Our God

Verse 1:           Who has held the oceans in His hands?

Who has numbered every grain of sand?

Kings and nations tremble at His voice

All creation rises to rejoice

Chorus:           Behold our God seated on His throne

Come let us adore Him

Behold our King nothing can compare

Come let us adore Him!

Verse 2:           Who has given counsel to the Lord?

Who can question any of His Words?

Who can teach the One who knows all things?

Who can fathom all His wondrous deeds?

Repeat Chorus

Verse 3:           Who has felt the nails upon His hands

Bearing all the guilt of sinful man?

God eternal humbled to the grave

Jesus, Savior risen now to reign!

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:

Men:       You will reign forever!

Women: Let Your glory fill the earth (to Chorus)

Copyright 2011 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP/Sovereign Grace Praise BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries. AAR. CCLI #172212

Pastoral Prayer

The basket to receive His tithes and our offerings

is located on the left as you leave the Sanctuary.

We Worship Through Hearing

Sermon Hymn:

Psalm 23F                                                                  Blue Psalter, pg 136

“The Lord’s My Shepherd”

Today’s Message

Sermon Series: The Upside-Down Church

“Good Affliction”

II Corinthians 1:1-14

Notes

I. Greetings                         (II Cor. 1:1-2)

II. Praise God He Uses Our _______________ (II Cor. 1:3-11)

A. He ____________________ Us          (II Cor. 1:3-7)

So We Can Comfort ____________

B. Even ___________ Affliction is Used by God (II Cor. 1:8-11)

III. Praise God for Your Afflicted ______________       (II Cor. 1:12-14)

Communion

Prayer of Contrition

Sharing of the Elements

We invite to the Lord’s Table all those who are baptized disciples of Jesus Christ and are under the authority of Christ and His body, the Church. By eating the bread and drinking the wine with us as a visitor, you are acknowledging to the elders of this local church that you are in covenant with God and an active member of a congregation in which the gospel is faithfully confessed, taught, and believed. You also acknowledge that you are a sinner, without hope except in the sovereign mercy of God, and that you are trusting in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. If you have any doubt about your participation, please speak to the elders before or after the service.

Declaration of Forgiveness

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

Salvation Belongs to Our God
1. Salvation belongs to our God, who sits upon the throne,
and to the Lamb.

Praise and glory, wisdom and thanks, honor and power and strength

Be to our God forever and ever, be to our God forever and ever,

Be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
1. And we, the redeemed, shall be strong
in purpose and unity, declaring aloud,

Praise and glory, wisdom and thanks, honor and power and strength

Be to our God forever and ever, be to our God forever and ever,

Be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

Words and Music (SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD); Adrian Howard and Pat Turner ©1985 Restoration Music, Ltd./Sovereign Music UK; arr. Greg Scheer ©2007 Restoration Music, Ltd./Sovereign Music UK

Benediction

Order of Worship

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

Psalm 128C Blue Psalter, pg 845

“Whoever Fears the Lord”

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:1-11

Comfort for God’s People

¹ Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
²Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.

³ A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
⁴Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
⁵And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

⁶ A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
⁸The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.

⁹Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Behold your God!”
¹⁰Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
¹¹He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

His Mercy Is More
1. What love could remember no wrongs we have done;
Omniscient, all knowing, He counts not their sum.

Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

Refrain: Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.

Stronger than darkness, new every morn;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
1. What patience would wait as we constantly roam;
What Father, so tender, is calling us home.

He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor.

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

Refrain: Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.

Stronger than darkness, new every morn;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
1. What riches of kindness He lavished on us;
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost.

We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

Refrain: Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.

Stronger than darkness, new every morn;

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

(Repeat Refrain)

Words and Music by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa ©2016 Getty Music Songs, Messenger Hymns and Love Your Enemies Publishing

We Respond to God’s Presence

Come Praise and Glorify

(Based on Ephesians 1)

Come praise and glorify our God, the Father of our Lord

In Christ He has in heav’nly realms His blessings on us poured

For pure and blameless in His sight He destined us to be

And now we’ve been adopted through His Son eternally

Refrain:       To the praise of Your glory,

To the praise of Your mercy and grace

To the praise of Your glory

You are the God who saves

Come praise and glorify our God Who gives His grace in Christ

In Him our sins are washed away redeemed through sacrifice

In Him God has made known to us the myst’ry of His will

That Christ should be the head of all His purpose to fulfill     (Refrain)

Come praise and glorify our God for we’ve believed the Word

And through our faith we have a seal the Spirit of the Lord

The Spirit guarantees our hope until redemption’s done

Until we join in endless praise to God, the Three in One        (Refrain)

By Bob Kauflin and Tim Chester. © 2011 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)

Behold Our God

Verse 1:           Who has held the oceans in His hands?

Who has numbered every grain of sand?

Kings and nations tremble at His voice

All creation rises to rejoice

Chorus:           Behold our God seated on His throne

Come let us adore Him

Behold our King nothing can compare

Come let us adore Him!

Verse 2:           Who has given counsel to the Lord?

Who can question any of His Words?

Who can teach the One who knows all things?

Who can fathom all His wondrous deeds?

Repeat Chorus

Verse 3:           Who has felt the nails upon His hands

Bearing all the guilt of sinful man?

God eternal humbled to the grave

Jesus, Savior risen now to reign!

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:

Men:       You will reign forever!

Women: Let Your glory fill the earth (to Chorus)

Copyright 2011 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP/Sovereign Grace Praise BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries. AAR. CCLI #172212

Pastoral Prayer

The basket to receive His tithes and our offerings

is located on the left as you leave the Sanctuary.

We Worship Through Hearing

Sermon Hymn:

Psalm 23F                                                                  Blue Psalter, pg 136

“The Lord’s My Shepherd”

Today’s Message

Sermon Series: The Upside-Down Church

“Good Affliction”

II Corinthians 1:1-14

Notes

I. Greetings                         (II Cor. 1:1-2)

II. Praise God He Uses Our _______________ (II Cor. 1:3-11)

A. He ____________________ Us          (II Cor. 1:3-7)

So We Can Comfort ____________

B. Even ___________ Affliction is Used by God (II Cor. 1:8-11)

III. Praise God for Your Afflicted ______________       (II Cor. 1:12-14)

Communion

Prayer of Contrition

Sharing of the Elements

We invite to the Lord’s Table all those who are baptized disciples of Jesus Christ and are under the authority of Christ and His body, the Church. By eating the bread and drinking the wine with us as a visitor, you are acknowledging to the elders of this local church that you are in covenant with God and an active member of a congregation in which the gospel is faithfully confessed, taught, and believed. You also acknowledge that you are a sinner, without hope except in the sovereign mercy of God, and that you are trusting in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. If you have any doubt about your participation, please speak to the elders before or after the service.

Declaration of Forgiveness

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

Salvation Belongs to Our God
1. Salvation belongs to our God, who sits upon the throne,
and to the Lamb.

Praise and glory, wisdom and thanks, honor and power and strength

Be to our God forever and ever, be to our God forever and ever,

Be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
1. And we, the redeemed, shall be strong
in purpose and unity, declaring aloud,

Praise and glory, wisdom and thanks, honor and power and strength

Be to our God forever and ever, be to our God forever and ever,

Be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

Words and Music (SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD); Adrian Howard and Pat Turner ©1985 Restoration Music, Ltd./Sovereign Music UK; arr. Greg Scheer ©2007 Restoration Music, Ltd./Sovereign Music UK

Benediction

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